Greg Borenstein

@marick Ok I listened to this Satanic Panic episode. Do they post citations anywhere? This felt pretty vague and vibes-based. Also it’s slightly adjacent to what I’m interested in which is the extension of these kinds of fears to media (the Judas Priest teen suicide trial is an example)

@marick Will take a listen thanks!

Is there a good book about the history of satanic panics? I’m curious about the connection between the conservative christian paranoid reaction against horror and fantasy media of the 70s and 80s and online reactionaries’ obsessive hunt for “woke” messages in today’s media.

And he ends with some intriguing off ramps to sites of resistance (or recomplication): the “Métis” of hands-on (and especially indigenous) knowledge and various forms of anarchic resistance to legibility.

Scott doesn’t discount the real utilitarian gains created by some of these schemes but he also shows how many of them oversimplified the world’s complexities to the point of absurdity or mistook the visual aesthetics of order for rationality itself.

Since I’m not going to finish another book today it looks like this finishes my Book Thread for this year. 66 books and ending with Mark Fisher seems appropriate: twitter.com/atduskgreg/sta… Thought I’d write a little bit about my 5 favorite books from the year…